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Dan Beachy-Quick

Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator, author most recently of the essay collection How to Draw a Circle: On Reading and Writing (University of Michigan Press, 2024). He is currently interim chair of the English department at Colorado State University, where he is a distinguished teaching scholar.

Threnody for the Letter M

The maker is blessed, though babble be the measure of the necessary wood, that matter, the mind’s muttering   sounds, μὺ μῦ, a hum, a moan, a moon, the myth a mouth is, making murmur into the intricate dust of the moth’s   fragile wing, muons & other ...